Learning php, but needs some help.

mattish_91

Hello, sorry to bother you all but, i do need some help since im totally new with php, what im trying to do here is to make two fields to be save in a file (they actually do) but when i type some rows are getting at the same row as a previous post, can some one please look up this script for me? Thanks in advance.

index.php:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="index2.php?saving=1">
Text1: <br><input type="text" name="username"><br>
Text2:<br>
<textarea name="password" cols="100" rows="10"/>

</textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>
<p>

index2.php:

<?php
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$fp = fopen("myfile.txt","a+") or exit("unable to open the file");
if($fp != null)
{
fwrite($fp,$username);
fwrite($fp,$password);
}
fclose($fp);

?>

bradgrafelman

You don't include any separator between the username and password, nor do you include any separator (i.e. a line break) between one form submission and the next. You should include both when fwrite()'ing the data.

mattish_91

You mean like this?

<?php 
$username = $_POST['username']; 

$password = $_POST['password']; 
$fp = fopen("myfile.txt","a+") or exit("unable to open the file"); 
if($fp != null) 
{ 
fwrite($fp,$username,$password); 
} 
fclose($fp); 

?>

bradgrafelman

No; now you're no longer writing the password to the file but instead passing it as the "length" parameter to [man]fwrite/man. In addition, you didn't add anything (such as the two missing separators I mentioned above).

Use string concatenation (or multiple calls to fwrite() as you were previously doing) to write the username, password, and two separators (they can be whatever you want).